Fwd: Amritavani # 127 ~ English ~ the eVoice of Amma

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Ôm Amriteswaryai Namah

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

eVoice:-

nº 127

Mata Amritanandamayi

Math, Amritapuri, India

1st July

2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

In this Amritavani

Ø- Amma's Words:- Science needs

direction from spirituality

Ø- Amrita ISRO VRC:- Amrita has A Major role to play in

transforming our society

Ø- Amritapuri Updates - Mothersite

Ø- Mahayatra - Itinerary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Satsang

Amma's Words

Science needs

direction from spirituality

 

 

Amma's message send from Dallas, USA for

the launch

of Amrita-ISRO VRC network launch in Coimbatore, 6 July

2005.

Amma bows down to everyone, who are the embodiments of pure

Love

and the Supreme Self.

 

 

Amma is pleased to learn that the inauguration of

the

AMRITA ISRO Village Resource Center is being conducted

in

the esteemed presence of the Honourable President of

India.

It makes Amma’s

heart full just to think that today, the villages of

India

are on the path of development.

India’s growth lies in the growth of her

villages. Yet,

when we work with the intent of improving our villages,

it

is essential to realize that we should not spoil their

pristine

beauty. This beauty is inherent in the innocence and

simplicity

of the villagers and the customs and traditions they

have been

following for generations. Just as it is our

responsibility

to modernize our villages, we should also see it as our

duty

to carefully preserve the charm that our culture lends

them.

 

 

Education is not just to increase our brainpower. It should

also

have the capacity to touch and awaken our hearts.

Amma has heard a story about computers in the future. In

the future,

there will be this computer that runs 24 hours a day, and it

will

be operated by a man and a dog. The man’s job will be

to

feed the dog and the dog’s job will be to stop the man

from

touching the computer!

Though this is just a humorous anecdote, it contains a

hidden

warning, too. Although any kind of knowledge first begins as

a

means to benefit humanity, as time goes on, man’s

selfishness

gradually brings it to its destruction.

When we accomplish immense leaps in computer education and

Internet

experimentation, we should not forget the truth that it is

spirituality

that teaches us how to use knowledge with discrimination.

Only

man has the power to turn good into evil and evil into

good.

In this age, when computers and the Internet are becoming

more

and more prominent on the education scene, we should give

our students

the capacity and discrimination to distinguish between good

and

evil.

Amma prays to the Paramatman, Supreme Being that the

program organized

here today may become successful in achieving this goal.

 

 

 

 

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Amrita-ISRO

VRC

 

Amrita has

A Major role to play in transforming our society

 

 

President of India launches

Amrita ISRO satellite network of village

resource

centers

 

6 July 2005, Ettimadai, Coimbatore.

 

 

In a packed colourful function attended

by

over 4000 people plus hundreds of people

at 9

centers, the President of India, His

Excellency,

Bharat Ratna, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam launched

the

Amrita ISRO (Indian Space Research

Organization)

joint initiative in 'Village Resource

Centers'

on 6 July, 2005 at the Ettimadai campus of

Amrita

Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Governor of Tamil

Nadu,

Shri Surjit Singh Barnala, Tamil Nadu

Education

Minister, Shri Shanmugham, Dr. G. Madhavan

Nair,

Chairman of ISRO, Brahmachari Abhayamrita

Chaitanya,

Chief Operating Officer of AMRITA Vishwa

Vidyapeetham

and Dr. P. Venkat Rangan, Vice Chancellor,

Amrita

University were also present on the dais.

 

 

 

More than 25 CEOs and senior executives from

leading

IT and Financial Services Companies also

attended the

launch.

In his speech for students, Dr. Kalam said,

“Amrita

University has a major role to play in

transforming

our society into a knowledge society through

it’s

unique value-added education system”. He

also

added that he was happy that the Amrita ISRO

VRC's

had a mission of taking space technology and

knowledge

products from the University directly for

communities

at the grass root level like fisheries and

agriculture.

He also emphasized on the need to establish

Village

Panchayat Knowledge Centers to empower

villagers. He

also asked the students to repeat with him,

learning

gives creativity & creativity leads to

thinking,

thinking provides knowledge and knowledge makes

you

great.

Earlier, Vice Chancellor Dr. P. Venkat Rangan

welcomed

the gathering. Shri Barnala released the

brochure of

the new venture. Dr. Madhavan Nair gave a brief

overview

on the latest initiatives of ISRO. He also

commended

the support provided by Amrita in implanting

tele-medicine

and tele-education services across India.

Incidentally,

Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences hosts one

of the

largest tele-medicine networks in India

connecting

to over 36 remote rural hospitals as far flung

as Leh-Ladakh.

In two years it has already done over 800 tele

consultations

and 250 CME programmes seminars and conferences

including

a heart surgery and kidney conference.

Tele-education partners, Balu Doraiasamy,

(Hewlett

Packard), N. Lakshmi Narayanan (Cognizant),

Sudev Muthyah

(Microsoft) and Ranajoy Punja (CISCO) announced

their

support and participation in this Amrita ISRO

rural

development project. Likewise Tele-Medicine

project

partners Krishna Dhawan (Oracle) and Ketan

Sampath

(Intel); Tele-agriculture partner,

Tele-fisheries partner

Harishankar (IL & FS) announced their intent

to

participate. Shri K. Dinesh, Co-founder

and Director –Infosys

and MD of Ashraya Hasta announced support for

the Disaster

Management service of the VRC. 10 Amrita VRCs

spread

across 2 states were live and their interactions

created

quite a flutter. The Tele-education demo by

Kozhikode

Amrita Vidyalayam principal, Shobha

Gopalakrishnan

was superb.

 

 

 

 

 

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Mothersite

 

Amritapuri.org

 

Updates

 

 

 

 

President

of India speech complete

 

Amrita village

resource

centers

Schools, Hospitals, Tsunami affected areas.

 

210 boats to

Nagai

Chidambaram handed over of 210 brand new FRP boats

 

Amma's goodness

inspired

tsunami relief work

Endowed with a big heart,

symbolising the goodness of the society

 

Handing over

the keys

to the next 89 houses

Finished 122 houses in Kerala.

 

Tsunami Photo

Update:

Motivation campaign for self-reliant village,

books distribution at the shelters.

 

(video)

Every day brahmacharis happily unload

truck loads of steel and cement for the construction of the tsunami

houses.

LA County presents

award

to Amma

Thanking Amma for her outstanding humanitarian contributions,

Efforts and compassionate love that she has shared and

Continues to share with the tsunami victims in India & Sri Lanka.

Photos

from Amma's CA Visit (12 photos update)

 

Ashram is a role

model

in tsunami relief work

I don't know how to thank Amma for her offer of

unconditional aid and the plethora of services she has rendered "

-The Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy

 

Matru

Gramam

An alternative to traditional means of livelihood for the villagers

 

Amrita

Tsunami

Relief:Key to 16 Houses Photos (6) Update

Photo update of Amrita tsunami relief operations

Housing constructions from Kerala & Tamil Nadu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Mahayatra

Itinerary of Amma

 

USA

Albuquerque, New Mexico Jun 27- July 1

 

Dallas July 3-4 Iowa July 6-7 Chicago July 9-10 Washington DC July 12-14

For details of all other programmes,

please visit Mahayatra

 

 

 

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Ôm Namah

Shivaya

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

advaitajnana , Tony O'Clery <aoclery> wrote:

 

Namaste,

 

Just in case:

 

I'm not a Amma Devotee, but take her magazine and like the good

works.............ONS...Tony.